Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.

Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.

Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.

Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.

No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.